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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Agriculture Department has closed offices in five states after receiving anonymous threats....
BRUSSELS (AP) -- Apple will have to pay up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) plus interest in back taxes to Ireland after the European Union found Tuesday that the U.S. technology giant had paid next to no tax across the bloc's 28 countries for over 11 years....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The German pilot who deliberately flew his airliner into a mountainside last year had struggled with learning to fly and had failed a key test of his skills during training in the U.S., according FBI interviews with his flight instructors....
HARDAN, Iraq (AP) -- Peering through binoculars, the young man watched as Islamic State extremists gunned down the handcuffed men and then buried them with a waiting bulldozer. For six days he watched as IS filled one grave after another with his friends and neighbors....
(Vatican Radio) In the context of the Jubilee of Mercy, the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and the CELAM (Latin American Bishop's Conference) have organised a great "Celebration of Mercy in the American Continent" in Bogotà, Colombia. The celebration is taking place 27-30 August, with the participation of Cardinals, Bishops, Priests, Religious, and lay people from countries ranging from Canada to the "Patagonia". The purpose of the meeting is to bring together different aspects of ‘church’ and to experience the merciful face of the Father.Cardinal Gerald Lacroix, the Archbishop of Quebec, spoke to Vatican Radio from the Jubilee of the Americas event.Listen to the full interview: Pope Francis sent a video message for the opening of the event on Saturday. In the interview, Cardinal Lacroix said the Pope had put it well: "The Holy Father was right. This is not a convention, a meeting, or a seminary; it'...
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Óscar Maradiaga, SDB, is attending the Jubilee of the Americas, an event organised by the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and the CELAM (Latin American Bishop's Conference) in Bogotà, Colombia.The "Celebration of Mercy in the American Continent" is taking place 27-30 August to bring together different aspects of ‘church’ and to experience the merciful face of the Father.Cardinal Maradiaga is the Archbishop of Tegucigalpa in Honduras and the coordinator of the C9 Council of Cardinals. He told Vatican Radio the Jubilee of the Americas is 'like a crown in this Year of Mercy'.Listen to the full interview: Cardinal Maradiaga said, "We have been reflecting, praying, celebrating, and also visiting many works of mercy that are developed here in Bogotà, but as well in the rest of Latin America with the witness of many bishops."He said all present are &q...
Rimini, Italy, Aug 30, 2016 / 03:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Brazilian man who received the miracle allowing for Mother Teresa’s canonization has shared his story, saying he and his wife were ordinary believers who received an extraordinary sign of God’s mercy.“From the beginning, the diagnoses weren’t good and they seemed only worse. (But) from that moment, inside this great suffering, we understood that something had happened,” Marcilio Haddad Andrino said of his miraculous healing.“I was sure that it was Mother Teresa who healed me.”Andrino, who comes from Santos, Brazil, was healed through the intercession of Mother Teresa – the miracle that paved the way for her canonization, which is set for Sept. 4.He spoke with journalists during the Aug. 19-25 annual Rimini Meeting in Italy alongside his wife Fernanda, who each shared their own perspective of Marcilio’s illness and miraculous healing.Fernanda, sharing her perspectiv...
Cairo, Egypt, Aug 30, 2016 / 06:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Christians in Egypt are hoping that a new law will make it easier for them to build churches, particularly after old laws effectively forced Christians to celebrate Mass in house churches.“It is vital that the final law that gets passed should be acceptable to all parties and fully consistent with Article 235 of the constitution,” Dwight Bashir, co-director of policy and research at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, stated to CNA.Article 235 of the 2014 Constitution of Egypt mandated that the country’s parliament would “in its first legislative term” pass a new law about building churches “in a manner that guarantees the freedom to practice religious rituals for Christians.”However, the parliament did not pass the law in its first term, and set a new deadline by the end of September.Christians have encountered serious obstacles to building new churches in Egypt, th...
BERLIN (AP) -- Scientists have found evidence to support what many dog owners have long believed: man's best friend really does understand some of what we're saying....
SEATTLE (AP) -- Authorities say the husband of Heart lead singer Ann Wilson is being held on investigation of assaulting two relatives during the group's show in suburban Seattle....
